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Renewable Photocatalysts

Technologies, Applications, Economics, Environmental Analysis, and a Sustainable Future

  • 1st Edition - October 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Hui Xu, MD Shouquat Hossain, Laveet Kumar
  • Language: English

Renewable Photocatalysts: Technologies, Applications, Economics, Environmental Analysis, and a Sustainable Future offers an innovative and broad approach to photocatalysts, integr… Read more

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Description

Renewable Photocatalysts: Technologies, Applications, Economics, Environmental Analysis, and a Sustainable Future offers an innovative and broad approach to photocatalysts, integrating design, materials, methods, applications, economics, and sustainable development. The book begins by introducing solar energy and catalysis, before delving into cutting-edge photocatalyst technologies and applications. The third section focuses on regulations, economics, and commercialization, before the final chapters provide further in-depth coverage of environmental considerations, life cycle, and applications. The lens of sustainable development is applied throughout the book, with a view to developing renewable photocatalysts that support the reduction of CO2 emissions, net zero goals, and sustainable development. This is a valuable resource for researchers, students, faculty, engineers, R&D, scientists, and policy makers, with an interest in solar energy, photocatalysts, and sustainable development.

Key features

  • Presents advanced photocatalyst-driven technologies and innovative solar energy applications
  • Targets the design of catalysts with high photocatalytic activity for emissions reductions
  • Provides economic and environmental analysis of potential large-scale commercial applications
  • Addresses regulations and sustainability of the development of renewable photocatalysts

Readership

Researchers, students, and faculty in the fields of solar energy, renewable energy, chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, and sustainable development

Table of contents

Part 1

1. Solar energy technologies and catalysis: Principles and applications

2. Hybrid solar-powered photocatalysis systems for hydrogen production, observation, and application

3. Solar photocatalytic, photoelectrochemical, and photovoltaic-electrochemical systems for hydrogen production: Advanced technologies, challenges, and opportunities

4. Advancement of Z and S-scheme heterostructure photocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution

Part 2

5. Utilization of renewable photocatalysis systems to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve zero energy (NZE) targets

6. Renewable photocatalysis-driven water-splitting applications

7. Renewable photocatalysis for hydrogen production and application

8. Future photocatalysis applications: Fuel cells, solar conversion, self-cleaning and self-sterilizing coatings, food and healthy treatments, drug delivery, cancer treatment, and environmental radiation

9. Photocatalysis pathways for conservation and storage of energy

10. Empowering photocatalysts with Artificial Intelligence: Innovations and applications

11. Photocatalysis pathways for wastewater treatment

Part 3

12. Renewable energy-based power generation, contribution to global policy, and benefits for future economic growth

13. Renewable photocatalytic technologies: Global policy barriers and economic implications

14. Total cost of renewable photocatalytic establishment for sustainable energy future

15. Global economic benefits of developing renewable photocatalytic energy

16. Global renewable photocatalytic energy market: Commercialization and future trends

17. Photocatalysis integrating economic, commercialization, and social assessment for the future energy market

Part 4

18. SWOT analysis of photocatalytic technology in the market towards environmental remediation

19. The environment for different types of catalysts materials used in photocatalysts

20. Life cycle assessment of photocatalyst materials

21. Environmental effect on the photocatalytic process and convenience of semiconductor materials

22. A new type of nanomaterial for environmental applications in the photocatalytic degradation of water pollutants

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

HX

Hui Xu

Hui Xu is a Professor at the Institute for Energy Research at Jiangsu University, in China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Jiangsu University in 2010. His research interests are in the development of nanomaterials and their composites for hydrogen evolution and energy conversion, with work mainly focused on photocatalytic and electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) and CO2 reduction using various nanostructures. He currently serves as a member of the Energy and Environment Committee of the Chinese Energy Society. Prof. Xu has published over 200 research papers in international journals, with more than 17,000 citations. He was selected as a Clarivate Analytics Global Highly Cited Scientist from 2019 to 2021. In 2020, he won the Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Youth Award, and in 2021 he was selected as an Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar, and received the second prize in the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation Science and Technology Progress Award.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, China

MH

MD Shouquat Hossain

MD Shouquat Hossain is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Energy Research at Jiangsu University, in China. He received his Ph.D. degree at the UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2018, and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the University of Malaya and at Peking University, China. Dr. Shouquat has 13 years of research experience and expertise in various renewable energy projects. His current research focuses on electric vehicles (EV), renewable energy with building applications, MPPT, solar PV efficiency, PVT, PCM, statistical modelling, economic analysis, micro-smart grids, solar PV efficiency, and real-time control and monitoring. He has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers.

Affiliations and expertise
Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, IUBAT – International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

LK

Laveet Kumar

Laveet Kumar is an Assistant Professor at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. degree at the UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2022. Dr. Laveet has 8 years of experience in research and expertise from various renewable energy projects. His current research focuses on thermal engineering, solar energy, energy security, energy policy, and climate change. He has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan